the distributors should be the last line in quality control. it's the label's and producers who should be towing the line where quality control is concerned. Only problem is, most producers have a different threshold for quality control, and most producers seem to think its compulsory to start a label too.

low quality control + your own label = greater potential for bad records

this isnt always the case of course, just the general feel i think. A great example of quality control on your own label is the new Singularity ep. It's a great record, a new label, from someone who genuinely cares about the overall production from the tracks right down to the artwork and little extra's such as online video's, mp3's etc etc.

we need more producers sending stuff out to labels other than their friends all the time and more labels saying "just tweak this a little, or doesnt that sound awfully like such and such"..... and after that we need more distributors to go "im sorry, we have too many labels/records in that vein already, but we are happy to listen to new stuff when u have it" thus in turn not discouraging people altogether but just getting them thinking that maybe they need to raise the bar a little. I dunno, seem's a wise option to me, but of course it wont happen.

it's quite subjective though really overall, i mean technically yeah sure we can all say wether a record should of been cut or not but musically, stylistically then one mans tune is another mans turkey

god i ****ing hate techno sometimes